BTW - Just so you know ahead of time you cannot trust the WD model number for OEM products and even some retail boxed products! Unless the reseller is advertising the special edition model, you can get burned.
Back in November when the rumor first surfaced that WD was substituting the special edition drive for the standard edition in some cases, I called WD tech support to verify this because we had purchased several through various CompUSA, Best Buy and Dell Direct deals. WD tech support said that they ha already received many calls about this issue and the problem had been identified. The rumor that WD shipped specil edition drives in lieu of the standard edition is 100% false. According to tech support, the special edition drives are not even manufacturered and packaged in the same country as the standard edition drives. WD does admit that it shipped some improperly labeled 100GB JB OEM and even standard retail drives labeled as SE. However, most of the improperly labeled drives were OEMs sent to Dell and Dell knew of the problem prior to shipment and still accepted them. These drives were labeled with the 100GB JB P/N , but were actually the standard drive and not the special edition. Only, the P/Ns were incorrect and the S/N series on the drives were correct for the standard edition. The only way that you can verify that you actually have a special edition 100GB or 120GB WD drive is to download and install the WD Data LifeGuard tools v2.8 or later from their website. The earlier versions of Data LifeGuard tools included with your drive do not properly identify the drive buffer cache or the negotiated ATA type for your WD drive. We actually ended up with two of the improperly labeled special edition drives purchase from Dell Small Business , but after running Data LifeGuard 2.8, the utility correctly identifed the drives as the standard 2MB edition and not the 8MB edition as the P/N on the drive would lead you to believe.
